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A Profile of the Change WWS Now Movement
A look into Change WWS, the legacy of the Black Justice League, and the University’s responses to student activism.
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Lawrenceville of Arabia
Welcome to Education City: the first knowledge-oriented theme park. Take the path to your left to experience true southern craftiness at Virginia Commonwealth University. But wait a second, if you’re a real Southerner at heart, then you may want to walk a little further to Texas A&M, just down the road. For novelty’s sake, you…
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Debate Scorecard
GREATEST INVASION IN FOREVER—NORMANDY In the undisputed declaration by McCain, the American invasion of Normandy in World War II is “the greatest invasion in history, still to this day, and forever,” although he promised, snickering, that his future land war in Asia would give it a “run for its money.”
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Week in Review
The 80th Academy Awards were like the 4th of July. You hear fireworks, and think perhaps to go to the window, but on second thought decide to keep on sitting on the couch. You’ve seen fireworks, but at this point in your life you’ve come to value a good sit above a spectacle. More than…
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Permanence of Refugee Camps
“He comes to the edge of the water every day in the early afternoon, he said. Last Thursday, nothing would bite.”
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Fishy Business
One of my Chemistry teachers once insisted that if you drank a glass of mercury and waited, you could piss it out. Urban legend or amazing feat? You decide.
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Georgia Canon and the Blue Wave
A writer reflects on his home state’s political climate leading up to the 2020 Senate Runoff Elections.
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All Depressed with Nowhere to Go
Princeton is not conducive to good mental health….If you enter freshman year with problems, then you’re up the proverbial shit creek, and University Health Services is not going to throw you a paddle.
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Making Time
The history of standard time began in the mid-1800s, when train companies in Britain began to adopt a time standard based on the sun position at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, called Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Before this, every town would have its own time standard.
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The Ravings of a Pinochet Junkie
It’s fairly rare, in this day and age, and on the continental landmass of the Americas, to be present at the official End Of An Era: the death of an ex-tyrant. Especially when, as was the case with former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, that death occurs at 2:15 PM on a sweltering, feet-dragging dog…
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Up a Creek Without a Paddle
When the Twin Towers fell, George Bush and his folks wasted very little time (give or take seven minutes reading a children’s book) in deciding that this act of seemingly unimaginable violence needed resolve and force, and that showing strength would unify the American people. Even I wanted to rally around him that afternoon. He…